Australian captives in Guantanamo

The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding two Australian captives in Guantanamo.cite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf
title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006
author=OARDEC
publisher=United States Department of Defense
date=May 15 2006
accessdate=2007-09-29] A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11 2002The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of January 2008 the camp population stand at approximately 285.

The two Australians were Mamdouh Habib, who had been sent to Egypt, prior to his detention in Guantanamo,and was repatriated in 2006; and David Hicks, who faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission, pled guilty in a plea bargain in March 2007, and received a nine month sentence, which he was allowed to serve in Australia.

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